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Mrs. Sandra Martin

Pennsylvania State Teacher of the Year Finalist for 2004

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Mrs. Martin welcomes comments and inquiries about seminars, staff-development programs, and presentations.

You can reach her at:

316 Lincoln Way West
New Oxford, PA   17350
(717) 624 - 4513
martinsandy@hotmail.com

Mrs. Martin enjoys speaking at conferences and staff-development sessions.  Her lectures direct educators with techniques that increase students' reading fluency, spelling skills, reading comprehension, and mathematics abilities. Sandra Martin specializes in providing school districts and intermediate units with hands-on ideas that assist students of all ages and mentalities to learn well.

The following are descriptions of some of her sessions:

Increase Reading Fluency and Test Scores: Teaching Phonics to Students of All Ages, K-12

Manual: Breaking the “Sound” Barrier to Fluent Reading, Level 1

This staff development course helps teachers utilize a multi-sensory, high-interest phonics program called Breaking the “Sound” Barrier to Fluent Reading, Level 1. The course’s syllabus incorporates innovative techniques and age-appropriate activities that appeal to readers of all grade levels, K-12. Successful retention of phonic sounds is necessary to increase reading fluency and spelling skills. Educators will learn to teach phonics to encourage retention. Many phonics programs are unsuccessful in promoting retention for all students.

These techniques are helpful if you are teaching beginning phonics, elementary reading, English as a second language, or have middle or high school readers who struggle with fluency because they haven’t mastered basic phonics. The class uses the manual called Breaking the “Sound” Barrier to Fluent Reading, Level 1 as its guide. All of the necessary materials needed to begin a successful phonics program are included in the manual and course.

In the 20 years of research and test piloting of this curriculum, students with learning disabilities have shown up to four years of reading growth in one year. Students that continued with Breaking the “Sound” Barrier to Fluent Reading, Level 2, showed significant reading fluency gains. This phonics program won the Shippensburg University Exemplary program award for 2002. It also recently aired on WGAL Channel 8 TV’s Learning Matters. Since then, many regular education students have begun to successfully use this program.

 

Teaching Math Concepts To Ensure Long-Term Retention and Raise Math Test Scores

Manuals: Mathopedia, Level 1 and Mathopedia, Level 2

The design of this course helps teachers develop a memory-enhancing, multi-sensory mathematics program for students in grades 3-12. The program helps students become proficient with basic mathematics skills from addition to pre-algebra. Many children have difficulty retaining math concepts from year to year. The teaching methodologies used in Mathopedia assist students with long-term retention of skills, making it easier to grasp more difficult concepts. The course suggests consistency of instruction between grade levels to promote a better understanding of skills. Consistency between teachers can be achieved through the methodologies used in Mathopedia, Level 1 followed by the methodologies in Mathopedia, Level 2.

These methodologies will help you if you teach basic mathematics skills. Average to accelerated students in grades
3-8 would benefit from this instruction as well as students with below-average math abilities in grades 4-12. The teacher can choose from two different levels of training allowing for individuality. Appealing lessons and math tricks will benefit students of all intelligence levels. Teachers learn to use instructional techniques to help students successfully answer word problems and open-ended questions. This type of training helps students perform well on the state’s math assessments.

Mrs. Sandra Martin has also presented staff development sessions on inclusion. Sandy began the first inclusion classes in the New Oxford Middle School in 1995. She believes that the two teachers responsible for the classroom need to share the teaching responsibilities. The regular education teacher is in charge of content. The special education teacher adapts the content to suit the needs of all students. The class is co-taught.

Other staff-development programs consist of inclusion, improving reading comprehension, increasing spelling skills, improving writing skills in accordance to state standards, and right-left brain learning.

Sandra Martin's Activities With Staff Development

*Speaker - Mentoring future teachers - for Pennsylvania's Governor's School for Teaching at Millersville University, PA in 2006

*Reading chairperson and video evaluator for National State Teachers of the Year - PA Chapter in coordination with the Pennsylvania Department of Education at the PDE building in Harrisburg, PA in 2006

* Speaker - General special education topics - Dickinson University's Kappa Delta Pi in 2005

* Guest lecturer for student teachers at Dickinson University, PA from 2003 to the present
* Speaker - Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year - state level conference, Harrisburg, PA in 2003, 2004, 2006 on increasing student performance on tests through multi-sensory instruction and mentoring new teachers
* Speaker – National Teacher of the Year Conference in Lancaster, PA in July of 2004 on increasing students’ test scores in mathematics
* Speaker - staff development program - increasing students’ reading levels for 80 secondary alternative education teachers at the Lincoln Intermediate Unit #12, New Oxford, PA in October 2004
* In-serviced Eastern York County’s 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade teachers in 2004 on Mathopedia, Sandra Martin's mathematics program.
* Coordinated a Mathopedia test-pilot program in the 5th- 8th grade inclusion classes at New Oxford Middle School in 2003
* Researched math and reading programs for effective instruction from 1980 to the present
* In-serviced Northern York County schools, PA in 2003 on mathematics and phonics
* Speaker – staff development session for Intermediate Unit #4, Grove City, PA in the spring of 2003 for 60 secondary teachers on the topic of phonics
* Instructor for phonics and other literacy topics for staff development sessions at the Lincoln Intermediate Unit #12, New Oxford, PA in 2002 and 2003
* Instructor for mathematics, phonics, and other literacy topics for staff development at the Conewago Valley School District in 2002, 2003, and 2004
* Guest lecturer at Shippensburg University in 2001-2002 on the topic of literacy
* Presenter for Bloomsburg University’s Annual Reading Conference on the topic of phonics in 2002
* Presenter for the Council for Exceptional Children on the topic of phonics in 2002
* Presenter at Shippensburg University’s Exemplary Program Council on the topic of phonics in 2002
* Attended Conewago Valley’s Understanding By Design staff development course in 2002-2003
* Attended Conewago Valley’s Writing Across the Curriculum staff development course in 2001-2002
* Attended Conewago Valley’s Dimensions of Learning staff development course in 2000-2001
* Presenter for new teacher inductions from 1999 to the present
* Supervised three special education student teachers at the graduate level in 1997 and 1998
* Completed an intensive week-long course of study in textbook publishing by The Educational Publishing Institute sponsored by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill and Shippensburg University in 1998
* Guest lecturer for the Lincoln Intermediate Unit #12’s summer teacher in-service sessions from 1985 to 1989 on literacy, right-left brain learning, and computerized reading programs
* Attended LIU #12’s training sessions in 1985 related to research done by the Kansas Mental Retardation and Developmental Disability Research Center on specific techniques for students with learning disabilities
* Attended numerous in-service sessions and staff development workshops sponsored by the Lincoln Intermediate Unit #12 from 1976-1996
* Membership in the National State Teacher of The Year – PA Chapter Association, Pennsylvania State Education Association, the National Education Association, the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), CEC’s Division of Learning Disabilities, the Learning Disabilities Association of America, Who's Who Among American Teachers, Who's Who of American Women, Madison Who's Who, and Metropolitan Who's Who

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